Feed The Animals

Feed The Animals

Girl Talk released a new album, Feed The Animals a few weeks ago. And it filled a serious void in my summer iPod rotation. In case you’re unaware, Girl Talk is Gregg Gillis, a sort of wunderkind who specializes in sample-based remixes, which use dozens of elements of different songs of a extreme variety (the example I’ve youtube inserted below includes LCD Soundsystem, Britney Spears, Elastica, DJ Funk, Steve Wonder, The Breeders, Ludacirs and Steve Winwood).

Anyway.. their last album, Night Ripper, is largely responsible for my ability to spend an hour on a treadmill, or for about half of 2006, not getting bored on an hour long subway/bus/subway/bus combo. And Animals (which Pitchfork explains how to attain here – this can’t be iTunes’d or storebought), managed to exceed my expectations.

I’ve included the insane track listing of a few of the songs, with all the sample songs listed in order of appearance (it ruins a surprise if you haven’t heard it yet.. half the fun is trying to get all the titles down while listening to it), so check it out after the jump if you’d like.

But below.. I was randomly looking for a video of sorts to post as proof of my compliments, and what found was a video created by a the Open Source Cinema Project, which is based in Montreal and out of Concordia University, the school I’m currently desperately trying to graduate from. Matt Soar, a professor in my department, teamed with his students and spent what he describes as (according to YouTube) “three very intensive weeks rotoscoping a concert video” of Girl Talk. They were, he says, “inspired by Bob Sabiston’s digital rotoscoping, and by Christine Harold’s OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture, a textbook used for his communications course.

Its called “Bounce That,” and its on Night Ripper.

And seriously, if you ever get a chance, check out Gillis’ live show. Some dates (none of which are near me) are listed on the Pitchfork link above.

Tracklist

An incomplete list of sampled tracks is included under each song. However, the CD will include a list of every sample used in the album.